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Originally Posted by 6dyslexicelephnt  huge difference.
my roomate had the RP5s and a sub when I got my adam A7s. The A7s may not be as nice to listen to, but they are WAY more detailed in all areas, especially upper mids. For this reason they are very useful for recording and mixing. I think the upgrade would be a good call. I have not heard the RP6s but I bet they sound somewhat similar to the RP5s |
The A7s are more on the forward sounding side, which allows them to be used for more surgical/critical type of mix work. The downside to this is that unless you know how to compensate for their forwardness, you can risk running into problems where your mixes will sound too dull or boring on other playback systems.
My solution to that has been to team up the Adams with the Mackies. The Mackies sound more linear and boring, and If you can create an exciting, forward sounding mix on the mackies, your mixes will sound exciting everywhere else. This helps me compensate for the Adams sounding too forward. So I end up doing all my critical work on the A7's and switch back and forth between the two sets of monitors until I feel the sound of the mix appears to be balanced between the two.
Once I got to a certain point in my mixing career, I found out that no one monitor was going to give me what I needed to ensure that my mixes sound above all else. At least by then though I had enough experience using different types of monitors in different types of settings that I knew exactly what I was looking for to suit my very own personal needs.